ارزان

See also: ارزاں

Baluchi

Adjective

ارزان • (arzán)

1. cheap
2. inexpensive

Gawar-Bati

Etymology

Borrowed from Pashto ارزان, Persian ارزان.

Adjective

ارزان (arzān)

1. cheap, inexpensive
2. worthless, insignificant

Khalaj

Adjective

اَرزان (arzân or ərzân)

1. Arabic spelling of arzân, ərzân (“cheap”)

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَرْزَان (arzān, “cheap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar.zɑn/, [äɾ.zɑ́n]

Adjective

ارزان • (arzān)

1. cheap

Declension

Declension of ارزان

	masculine		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural
direct	ارزان (arzān)	ارزان (arzān)	ارزانه (arzāna)	ارزانې (arzāne)
oblique	ارزان (arzān)	ارزانو (arzāno)	ارزانې (arzāne)	ارزانو (arzāno)
vocative	ارزانه (arzāna)	ارزانو (arzāno)	ارزانې (arzāne)	ارزانو (arzāno)

See also

• ارزانه (arzāna)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlcʾn /⁠arzān⁠/), 𐫀𐫡𐫉𐫀𐫗 (ʾrzʾn /⁠arzān⁠/, “valuable, worthy”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlc /⁠arz⁠/, “worth, value”) + [Book Pahlavi needed] (-ʾn /⁠-ān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Hárǰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hárǰʰ- (“to be worth”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫡𐫋𐫀𐫗 (ʾrjʾn /⁠aržān⁠/, “worthy”), Talysh ارژون (erjon), Northern Kurdish erzan and the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian արժան (aržan, “worthy; cheap”), Classical Syriac ܐܪܙܢ (ʾarzān, “cheap”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔar.ˈzaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.zɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.zɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.zɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.zɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæɹ.zɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäɾ.zɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	arzān
Dari reading?	arzān
Iranian reading?	arzân
Tajik reading?	arzon

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Adjective

Dari	ارزان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	арзон

ارزان • (arzân) (comparative ارزان‌تَر, superlative ارزان‌تَرین)

1. cheap, inexpensive

   Antonym: گران (gerân, “expensive”)

   • c. 1260, Rumi, “3:1001”, in The Masnavi:

     خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروخت، بود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت

     xwēštan-rā ādamē arzân furōxt, būd atlas xwēš bar dalqē bidōxt

     man sold himself for cheap; he was satin, but sewed himself to a dervish's rags.

Derived terms

• ارزانی (arzâni)
• ارزان‌فروش (arzân-foruš)
• حاجی‌ارزونی (hâji-'arzuni)

Related terms

• ارزیدن (arzidan, “to cost, to be worth”)
• ـان (-ân)

Descendants

• → Baluchi: ارزان (arzán)
• → Bashkir: арзан (arzan)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अरज़ान (arzān), अर्ज़ान (arzān), अरज़ाँ (arzā̃), अर्ज़ां (arzā̃)

  Urdu: ارزاں (arzā̃), ارزان (arzān)

• → Kazakh: арзан (arzan)
• → Khalaj: arzân
• → Kyrgyz: арзан (arzan)
• → Pashto: ارزان (arzān)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਰਜ਼ਾਨ (arzān), ਅਰਜ਼ਾਂ (arzā̃)

  Shahmukhi script: ارزاں (arzā̃), ارزان (arzān)

• → Tatar: арзан (arzan)
• → Turkmen: arzan
• → Ushojo: ارزان (arzān)
• → Uyghur: ئەرزان (erzan)
• → Uzbek: arzon

Further reading

• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, pages 52, 53
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “arzān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999), The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 296
• Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 166-167

Ushojo

Etymology

From Persian ارزان (arzân).

Noun

اَرزان (arzān)

1. cheap